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The biggest thing that factors into your "cost of living" is not geographic, but rather the number of dependents you have. Oddly, you don't seem to see companie
by tengbretson 6y ago
The biggest thing that factors into your "cost of living" is not geographic, but rather the number of dependents you have. Oddly, you don't seem to see companies trying to base their compensation on this. Why do you suppose that is?
- xenocratus 6y agoProbably because the company isn't paying you based on your living costs, but based on their cost of potentially losing you to some other company.
- tengbretson 6y agoI'd probably even be fine with it if companies just came out and said "We're doing it because leverage over you. Deal with it." It just grids my gears to no end when a company like Gitlab these blog posts about CoL adjusted compensation chock full of mental gymnastics to support themselves as doing some moral good for their employees. Gross.
- IggleSniggle 6y agoOddly, I work for a company that pays for childcare costs as part of its compensation package.